Names of Applicants for Master Plan Comprehensive Committee Must Be Disclosed
A Freedom of Information Law request was submitted to a town board seeking the names of all applicants requesting for appointment to the Master Plan Comprehensive Committee. The town denied the...
View ArticleLost Original Zoning Ordinance May Be Replaced with Copy Under State Lost...
In 1985, the Newton County Board of Commissioners adopted a “new zoning ordinance” and in 1997 East Georgia Land and Development Company LLC (EGL) requested a letter verifying that its proposed...
View ArticleCT Appeals Court Holds Planning Commission Did Not Violate Freedom of...
The Connecticut Appellate Court held that where members of the public verbally requested copies of documents that the planning and zoning commission were discussing at that meeting, the Commission’s...
View ArticleMI Appeals Court Holds Board Member’s Personal Notes Taken for Personal Use...
Plaintiff, a resident of Duncan Township, filed a FOIA request asking for copies of notes taken during the past year’s Duncan Township Board and Zoning Board meetings. The town clerk asked board...
View ArticleVT Supreme Court Holds Individual Board Members Need Not Disclose Records...
Plaintiff owns land that abuts a proposed subdivision. The Development Review Board approved the subdivision application in 2009 and Plaintiff appealed to the Environmental Division. In connection...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Finds GIS Mapping is a Public Record Subject to...
The Sierra Club commenced an action after attempting to obtain a copy of the Orange County Landbase, a GIS-formatted database of properties in Orange County, under the California Public Records Act....
View ArticleMD Appeals Court Finds Lease for Proposed New Development was Not...
Calvert Tract submitted a zoning application to the Prince George’s Planning Board of the Maryland–National Capital Park and Planning Commission seeking to use its 36 acre property for a mixed-use town...
View ArticleNV Supreme Court Holds Records Regarding Zoning Change Stored on Phones and...
This post was authored by Matthew Loeser, Esq. The Lyon County Board of Commissioners received an application to alter the zoning within Lyon County to allow for industrial development. The Board...
View ArticleNY Appellate Court Denies Petition to Compel Zoning Board to File “Corrected”...
This post was authored by Matthew Loeser, Esq. Petitioners commenced a CPLR article 78 proceeding to compel the Zoning Board to file “corrected” minutes of two meetings held in connection with the...
View ArticleFed. Dist Court in NY Finds Neighboring Property Owners Had No Legal...
This post was authored by Matthew Loeser, Esq. Pro se plaintiffs Ronald and Catherine Macera, bought a home locating at 12 English Street in 2007. In 2008, Janne and Joe Lawrence rented the house next...
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